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NT Chill
13 yrs ago
After many years in Hong kong i've finally organised a junk crusie myself. I need help with ideas for where to go around sai kung area where it is clean & relatively uncrowded (comparitively for HK) & there is space enough for us to do wakeboarding & have fun on the banana boat. My second request for help is that 2 of the companies were adamant that we could only have 30 people. I've never heard before that there was a limit on numbers. Has anyone had experience with this & how they enforce it so for example if we are 32 people what will they do?
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Thanks Cara - as we are all families the no show probability is low. obviously we are not going to take 10 extra people. We have 1 extra which includes 15 kids & I'm wondering if they do tend to count
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Cara is right. They normally have terms and conditions that say that if there are more than 32 (excluding crew), they are allowed to restrict access. I know that Lazydays cruises does. They also have a maximum of 32 pax. You should ask about kids' lifejackets, though. It's a legal requirement for the boat to carry lifejackets for the boat's maximum, but there's no stipulation for kids as far as I'm aware.
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Thanks for the input. I went with jumbo cruises but they told me in advance that they only had one size for life jackets & didn't have any lifejackets for the smaller kids. As we were taking the speedboat & wakeboard this was important. Should I have insisted on this. Also I just heard that one needs to check that the boats MOT & insurance is up to date. I wouldn't have thought about this (and didn't). Should one ask to see this info. We had a problem that the 2 crew only spoke cantonese, no mandarin or english & we didn't have a cantonese speaker on board so communication was difficult which also seemed to create a potential risk in case anything went wrong
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In order to get the operating licence to charter, the owner would have had to present the insurance certificate - normally about HK$5million in coverage.
Language is more of a problem as obviously there is nothing legally that says crew have to speak English! Above mentioned Lazydays - their crew is completely bilingual I believe.
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What I heard is that some boats charter without having the operating licence & therefore don't have the insurance. Should one check this when getting on the boat. Are they legally obliged to display the operating licence?
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re language of course it's the luck of the pot & it's my problem that I don't speak Catnonese the commonly used language in HK. However I thought that I would make a note of it here for others to consider when making a booking that it's important to check if there is a common langauge be it cantonese, mandarin or english. I will try lazydays next time. Thanks for the tip
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No problem. They should definitely at least a copy of the operating licence and proof of ownership on board in case the Marine Department or Police check. I think customers should have the right to check that too - good point!
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